Hi, all ! I can't convert with convert(bytea, name, name)::bytea from 'iso-8859-5' to 'windows-1251' or any other cyrillic 8-bit encoding.
seb=> show client_encoding ; client_encoding ----------------- UTF8 seb=> show server_encoding; server_encoding ----------------- UTF8 seb=> select version(); version ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PostgreSQL 8.3.0 on i486-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC cc (GCC) 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-1) lc_collate | ru_RU.UTF-8 lc_ctype | ru_RU.UTF-8 lc_messages | ru_RU.UTF-8 lc_monetary | ru_RU.UTF-8 lc_numeric | ru_RU.UTF-8 lc_time | ru_RU.UTF-8 seb=> select convert(convert('абвгдеёжзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюяАБВГДЕЁЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ', 'utf-8', 'iso-8859-5'), 'iso-8859-5', 'windows-1251'); ERROR: character 0xf1 of encoding "ISO_8859_5" has no equivalent in "MULE_INTERNAL" At first - i am convert my console locale encoding (ru_RU.UTF-8) to iso-8859-5 (cyrillic 8-bit character encoding) and second convert is for show problem. windows-1251 - is other cyrillic 8-bit character encoding, convert to koi8-r also not work. i am write output of convert(..., 'utf-8', 'iso-8859-5') into file and read it with: iconv -f iso-8859-5 -- all chars readed ok. (see progs in attach) convert(..., 'iso-8859-5', 'utf-8') looking good, i am check it like this: seb=> set standard_conforming_strings TO on; --- do not escape bytea SET seb=> select convert('\320\321\322\323\324\325\361\326\327\330\331\332\333\334\335\336\337\340\341\342\343\344\345\346\347\350\351\352\353\354\355\356\357\260\261\262\263\264\265\241\266\267\270\271\272\273\274\275\276\277\300\301\302\303\304\305\306\307\310\311\312\313\314\315\316\317', 'iso-8859-5', 'utf-8'); convert -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \320\260\320\261\320\262\320\263\320\264\320\265\321\221\320\266\320\267\320\270\320\271\320\272\320\273\320\274\320\275\320\276\320\277\321\200\321\201\321\202\321\203\321\204\321\205\321\206\321\207\321\210\321\211\321\212\321\213\321\214\321\215\321\216\321\217\320\220\320\221\320\222\320\223\320\224\320\225\320\201\320\226\320\227\320\230\320\231\320\232\320\233\320\234\320\235\320\236\320\237\320\240\320\241\320\242\320\243\320\244\320\245\320\246\320\247\320\250\320\251\320\252\320\253\320\254\320\255\320\256\320\257 (1 запись) seb=> set standard_conforming_strings TO off; --- now we must escaping bytea for show text SET seb=> select E'\320\260\320\261\320\262\320\263\320\264\320\265\321\221\320\266\320\267\320\270\320\271\320\272\320\273\320\274\320\275\320\276\320\277\321\200\321\201\321\202\321\203\321\204\321\205\321\206\321\207\321\210\321\211\321\212\321\213\321\214\321\215\321\216\321\217\320\220\320\221\320\222\320\223\320\224\320\225\320\201\320\226\320\227\320\230\320\231\320\232\320\233\320\234\320\235\320\236\320\237\320\240\320\241\320\242\320\243\320\244\320\245\320\246\320\247\320\250\320\251\320\252\320\253\320\254\320\255\320\256\320\257'; ?column? -------------------------------------------------------------------- абвгдеёжзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюяАБВГДЕЁЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ (1 запись) it os ok. text string parameter is russian alphabet from first letter to last, lower case, and from first letter to last, UPPER case may be i am doing something wrong ? ---
#include <iostream> #include <fstream> using namespace std; int main() { /* seb=> select convert('абвгдеёжзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюяАБВГДЕЁЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ', 'utf-8', 'iso-8859-5'); convert -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \320\321\322\323\324\325\361\326\327\330\331\332\333\334\335\336\337\340\341\342\343\344\345\346\347\350\351\352\353\354\355\356\357\260\261\262\263\264\265\241\266\267\270\271\272\273\274\275\276\277\300\301\302\303\304\305\306\307\310\311\312\313\314\315\316\317 */ char s[] = "\320\321\322\323\324\325\361\326\327\330\331\332\333\334\335\336\337\340\341\342\343\344\345\346\347\350\351\352\353\354\355\356\357\260\261\262\263\264\265\241\266\267\270\271\272\273\274\275\276\277\300\301\302\303\304\305\306\307\310\311\312\313\314\315\316\317"; ofstream o("iso-8859-5.dump.txt", ios::trunc | ios::binary); // OVERWRITE file iso-8859-5.dump.txt in current dir ! o.write(s, sizeof(s) - 1); // do not write last zero byte return 0; } /* for test: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ iconv -f iso-8859-5 iso-8859-5.dump.txt абвгдеёжзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюяАБВГДЕЁЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ */
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